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Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?
most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm
(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)
i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….
one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english
in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.
he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that
obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…
obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…
the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back
you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway
i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?
yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….
#queue tea pie#what’s the point of asking ‘hey are you uncomfortable with how much i touch you’ if you’re going to ignore my answer…#this event creeped me out when i was younger#as a side note rock (AWL) doesn’t use honorifics or even your name most of the time but romeo (DS) uses them properly#(good boy)#bokumono#harvest moon#harvest moon ds cute#hmds cute#hmds#ain#kai (ds)#localization stuff#having seen all the forget valley boys heart events in japanese…hmmmm……..#gared (griffin’s) heart events are great… romeo’s are my favorite overall because of the Arc#i’m liking steiner more in JP (an annoying babygirl)#ash’s last heart event was great and i like his dialogue more in JP but i really didn’t like his blue heart event…#there’s certain Unfortunate Probably Unintentional Vibes that would probably be changed in a remake#i honestly play a lot more of the JP version than the english version so it’s hard for me to comment on anything i haven’t seen in english#but a lot of the time in general Tone and Feeling is ignored and thus the characters sound unnatural in EN#like compare the way Xseed handled everyone’s unique speech patterns and dialogue with the way natume did in awl…
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#persona 4 golden#p4g#hanamura yosuke#yosuke hanamura#i think a lot about the depth of yosuke's loneliness - away from th distractions of the city and losing even the superficial r/s that he ha#of course he would hate inaba#the moment he arrived in the town he was treated as an enemy for reasons he couldn't control#junes did destroy local businesses and the townspeople's fear of big chain capitalism is justified#BUT their treatment of him was not. i wanna say that the people in inaba were awful but actually theyre just... people.#they couldnt fight Junes or engender systemic change so they take it out on him instead and ostracize him with names and tacks in his shoes#and to add to that all of his already existing self doubt and identity issues#and the problems of growing up as a teenage boy in the early 2010s figuring out his place in society#i think yosuke is very similar to kanji in that both of them have that same struggle of their self being misaligned with social expectation#so they play up this exaggerated caricature or image based on who they think they are supposed to be#in kanji's case it's an image that lets him control his rejection - he looks like a scary gang member so ofc no one wants to be near him#in yosuke's case he goes in the opposite direction of desperately wanting to fit the mould or image of a typical teenage boy#except there isnt such a thing as an “average” teenage boy so hes just such a mess sometimes#but masking so that hes accepted by others as just a teenage boy and not the prince of junes or anything? yeah.#haha my heart#he's good with his queue
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people are already saying they're afraid of what scully/skully/skelly's EN name will be but i honestly don't think they'll change his name just because they changed fellow and gidel... fellow's name change is pretty understandable imo but i see no reason why scully j. graves would need to be changed. i just want to know what the correct spelling of it is supposed to be 😭
#I MEAN MAYBE I'LL BE PROVEN WRONG NEXT YEAR BUT#i think the thought process with fellow honest was that it sounds cool to japanese speakers simply by virtue of being in english#but to us those are just Words. that's not really a Name. it makes sense to get more creative when localizing to english#except the really dedicated EN fans already got used to the JP name and don't wanna switch over#but my point is i can see how this happened. while i can't see a reason to change a name that already sounds cool and good in english
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more octo2 fanart where i draw a character doing absolutely nothing
#octopath traveler ii#my art#agnea bristarni#her name is sooo confusing to me bc its bristarniz in spanish#so i have to be careful not to tag it with a z at the end LMAO. idk why they changed the names sort of this time around in localization#ok. going to bed good night
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Had a dream recently that they made another Angels in the Outfield movie (I have not seen this movie since early elementary, but apparently, I used to love it) but it was a messy dream so it was called as stylized as something like eggs . land.. and it had nothing to do with baseball I believe and also it sucked. I was so frustrated confused that I woke up. Owen Wilson was in it, he was my friend. I was also apparently in it.
#owen wilson was a good part i guess#there was also some kid character that was trying to make the movie about him so he kept changing things and misbehavior#its prob that kids fault that the movie was boring and about not baseball#also because im dumb stupid i didnt realize that the movie was direct Anaheim Angels? i thought they were going for generic team name#that happened to be a team local to me#anyway the title of the movie has haunted me#EGG . LAND..?????#Dreams#angels in the outfield#owen wilson#eggs?#not baseball#that's for sure!
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My heart hurts. Not physically, but emotionally. I don't like the news, I tend to avoid actively searching it out, for that exact reason. I ache because as people we just can't seem to get along. Learn to compromise and fully try to understand the other side. It's exhausting to understand why people are against certain things, even when it's the opposite of what I personally believe in.
#this is about a pronoun law being passed locally (one that I believe is appropriate and good)#as what's being passed is that under the age of 16 parent consent is needed for any name or pronoun changes#while there's at least one person throwing up a fuss about how terrible that is#like I get it lady you think it will cause harm where I see it as protecting kids and letting their parents know what's happening with them#it's not that I'm unsympathetic if anything I'm too sympathetic but there has to be checks and balances#especially when all of this trans/non-binary stuff is still so new and radical#people have been living life for a long time without these terms and without issue#and something that has always bothered me is that there is a reason why straight relationships are majority beyond religion#I do think that same sex attraction is natural#but that still doesn't mean that I think that it should be acted on it is a sin in the bible for a reason#though I would never kick a child of mine out of my house for feeling same sex attraction it would be a conversation needed about such#I have many more thoughts but most of them I would never necessarily post#as I would breakdown in tears at the first disparaging remarks because I'm soft like that#I also don't feel well educated enough to fully and properly make a case for myself#I'm surprised that I've even posted this though my most controversial thoughts are here in the tags
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If Johnny and Nooshy had grown up together.
Stan, talking to Marcus in the garage: Mate, you look exhausted, go take a nap or something.
Marcus, sleep deprived and holding a 6 year old Johnny: No chance, that’s not happening. I have one child that needs me to be holding him at all times and if he is not being held at all times- *slightly loosens his grip*
Johnny: *buries his face in his dads neck* DAD!!
Marcus, patting him on the back comfortingly: -all hell breaks loose. And then I have another child...over there. *points to Nooshy*
8 year old Nooshy: *jumps off the top of a rolling toolbox and lands on the ground with a thud*
Marcus, sighing: Who’s determined to be our local hospital’s patient of the month. Nooshy, honey, are you okay??
Nooshy, cheerfully jumping to her feet: I’m good!! Imma do it again!
Marcus, panicking: Do NoT!!
#sing marcus#sing nooshy#sing johnny#if those two grew up together all hell would have broken loose#johnny was an extremely anxious kid#he always wanted to be with his dad and uncles#nooshy was a very chaotic child#so not much has changed there#she would have been their local ER's most common visitor#marcus is so tired#so very tired#one kid was enough#sing stan#johnny (seperation anxiety is my middle name) taylor vs nooshy (it can't be that dangerous) peart#vs marcus (i just want a nap and 5 minutes of quiet) taylor#its a good thing nooshy was adopted by the taylors once she was an adult because they and johnny would have driven marcus crazy otherwise
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*giggling and twirling my hair and sighing like I have a crush*
Welchia… she’s so… beautiful…
I wanna run her on a Blaster-infected PC and watch her work…
#this is not about a girl this is about a COMPUTER VIRUS#specifically a nematode#which is a virus that attempts to do good and remove another virus#Welchia is an example of a nematode which was potentially more damaging than the virus it was trying to protect users against#namely that it was very widespread and infected BOTH the ACTUAL US NAVY and the ACTUAL US STATE DEPARTMENT#causing significant delays for both government entities#but it did uninstall the blaster virus and patch the vulnerability blaster exploited!#anyway#Welchia won’t infect you unless you have like. the worst luck imaginable. idk if it’s even still considered active since it’s been so long#even at the time Blaster and Welchia were active; most systems which were even infectable were using OS that were out of date#or went unpatched. simply because attempting to update them could break the programs that the computers were primarily using#for example: my local dentist office has an X-RAY program that clearly wasn’t designed for Windows 11#the most recent OS they use to run it is windows 7#even now plenty of restaurants use special embedded formats of windows XP for their point of sale systems even though they’re out of date#because updating them would be hellish and would put the point of sale out of commission for a while#government systems which have specialized programs which are the sole thing the computers are used for would have no incentive to update#because they have to run 24/7/365 and any delay or outage (say by an update to a new OS) could put them seriously behind#any system which cannot pause long enough to be updated or would potentially seriously lose usefulness if it was updated is extra vulnerable#so like. your Windows 11 computer is fine. especially since Welchia has an auto-kill switch when the date changes to 2004#but at the time it was destructive simply because installing the security patches and interrupting programs/restarting to do so was bad#for computers which needed to never stop working#namely: the things that society quickly crumbles without#luckily Welchia didn’t disrupt the way Wannacry did
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Do you speak Japanese? Or where do you source your translations? I don’t know the language but I like digging into translation differences!
Oh! I do not speak Japanese, however I am planning to learn the language + I've got grasp on oddly specific symbols and words because of digging in Bloodborne's Japanese script for SO. MANY. TIMES! The biggest help for me with some words and how they are composed was working with the document by Last Protagonist ( x ), and I also developed a habit of paying very close attention at katakana in names of people and/or places because of characters' names retranslation by @saintmicolash ( x ). (saintmicolash knows Japanese though, on the level of effortlessly translating messy text from fanart from Japanese users and all that and he super-helped me with solving localization team's riddles a few times, so if you are unsure of something about the script you can send him an ask.)
Basically, the simplest way I can explain it is that I've had to rummage within the original script so much that I could loosely "work" with Japanese excerpts even as is. I am familiar with people who DO know Japanese though so I double-check by asking them. I am very pleased that Soulsborne fandom learned and this time Japanese script of Elden Ring got into use INSTANTLY (and of course turned out there were characterization errors in English script that caused plague of inaccurate headcanons..... biiiig shock...).
#ask replies#fandomry rambles#technically you could ask last protagonist too but the last time i checked he is... well... a busy person#but yeah some people did talk to him too#also someone i recently met on another site also has good grasp on japanese and even tried to get their own translation stuff#i am not TOO sure about their qualification only yet but they are also a loredigger#so perhaps we will communicate too#but seriously soulsborne games at least got errors of localization#some japanese media has it much worse and west outright CHANGES things to their preferences#makes me think about that game where an old man made sexist comment about a woman that tried to kill him hahah#and translation just straight up edited it out#tldr; if you like japanese media you cannot trust anyone unless they offered their blood on the altar of lore accuracy#also paying extra attention was how i found kos is not kos but actually gos#basically her name is like 'phantasm' not like 'cosmos'
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I know it says "in the tags" but.
I was about to say 'hands down it was Gordon's Lemon Gin" but then something reminded me about Bundaberg Spiced Rum.
The Lemon Gin was an utter disappointment. I think I still made it through the bottle (with some help from similarly disappointed helpers). You know how Lemon has like. Two kinds of lemon flavour? Like that sweet lemon flavour you'd expect from pies or lemon and poppyseed muffins, vs that almost bitter and sour citrus you get from very few - but often enough to recognize - sources?
It was very definitely not sweet lemon. I would not pair that in any way, shape, or form with anything sweet.
(Which is a shame! The pink gin? lovely. The tangerine? Not bad! The lemon though I would run for the hills)
The Bundaberg Spiced Rum, however.
I never thought I'd find something that tasted like burning plastic.
They proved me wrong.
It was probably the most foul, worst thing I've tried. I think we even tried mixing it with coke, and that couldn't save it.
tell me in the tags either the worse drink you've ever had or what you do to alcohol to make it palatable
#but generally I don't mind alcohol?#I like if there's a kick to it that I can TELL I'm drinking#which is why I don't really like too many of the mixers?#like if I wanted to drink at least let there be a kick like whiskey or rum#vodka's actually nice too though but generally on its own thx#you can tell I just like. tried anything with a label or name that appealed#I am a fool for a cute label#(hello bizarrely amazing russian honey liquor)#ironically though when I was at uni - laziest little shit could not be bothered going out of my way to get alcohol.#sometimes I still am but it's a social thing#if it were just me myself and I it'd probably just be me with a tea IV and the occasional rum/whiskey/gin no doubt#I think one of the things that kinda helped was also going to various masterclasses at the local alcohol store#finding out that 'hey there's some whiskeys that aren't too bad' and 'holy shitballs I did not like that' without being bound to anything#helps a lot?#(also things like 'add a little bit of water to the whiskey to change the flavour' were interesting little Things™ to learn)#But idk I guess my big thing is just trying stuff and working out what tastes good to you and what tastes bad
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Yeah I know it's stupid to say it again but Russian bots and children buying their rhetoric can actually leave the room and still please fucking vote actually if you have the right
Crazy to say but, when it's a right that we're still working on getting imprisoned people to have, I don't think it's a very Hot Take to say it's useless. Sorry, maybe crazy of me, but I'm one of those people who would've been lobotomized before getting my right to vote in The Olde Days and I think maybe we ought to consider whose agenda we're endorsing by discouraging The Literally Bare Minimum Of Civic Engagement for your average Joe or Jane
#maybe instead of discouraging everyone else from voting you should find an outlet in your community that allows you to affect needed change#it grows from the grassroots up in this case because the system is broken#I'm not trying to espouse that the federal government is good actually#I'm trying to espouse that there's more to voting than just Who Is “The Leader of the 'Free' World”#voting is literally the bare minimum of engaging in your own community on a civic level#and maybe i am brainwashed#but I'm the socialist leaning douchebag that has still voted in every single local election since i came of age because i was aware that#voting isn't just President#it's judges and DA and fucking City Council and Education Board#and often the environmental Protection or similar group that's affiliated with the city#you can draw a dick over both Kamala and Trump's names as far as I'm concerned or fuck nominate Dick Dixon for president#but that's so far from the only thing we're talking about when we discuss voting and elections and it's#really it's negligence bordering on malignancy to claim that Not Voting is A Good Thing#the only people to whom that might apply are people like my father who fell into QAnon Lite and never quite left it#and i can assure you he and all of his ilk Will be voting#go ahead apathetic and negligent is a hot look when you have the privilege to not care
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Please don't tune out when you get to the non-partisan section of your ballot this November. First off, where state Supreme Court justices are elected, Republicans are trying their darndest to elect candidates who will destroy reproductive freedom, gut voting rights, and do everything in their power to give "contested" elections to Republicans. Contrast Wisconsin electing a justice in 2023 who helped rule two partisan gerrymanders unconstitutional, versus North Carolina electing a conservative majority in 2022, who upheld a racist voter ID law and a partisan gerrymander that liberal justices had previously struck down both of.
Second, local judicial offices will make infinitely more of an impact on your community than a divided state or federal legislature will. District and circuit courts, especially, are where criminalization of homelessness and poverty play out, and where electing a progressive judge with a commitment to criminal justice reform can make an immediate difference in people's lives.
It's a premier example of buying people time, and doing profound-short-term good, while we work to eventually change the system. You might not think there will be any such progressive justices running in your district, but you won't know unless you do your research. (More on "research" in a moment.)
The candidates you elect to your non-partisan city council will determine whether those laws criminalizing homelessness get passed, how many blank checks the police get to surveil and oppress, and whether lifesaving harm reduction programs, like needle exchanges and even fentanyl test strips, are legal in your municipality. Your non-partisan school board might need your vote to fend off Moms for Liberty candidates and their ilk, who want to ban every book with a queer person or acknowledgement of racism in it.
Of course, this begs the question — if these candidates are non-partisan, and often hyper-local, then how do I research them? There's so much less information and press about them, so how do I make an informed decision?
I'm not an expert, myself. But I do think/hope I have enough tips to consist of a useful conclusion to this post:
Plan ahead. If you vote in person, figure out what's on your ballot before you show up and get jumpscared by names you don't know. Find out what's on your ballot beforehand, and bring notes with you when you vote. Your city website should have a sample ballot, and if they drop the ball, go to Ballotpedia.
Ballotpedia in general, speaking of which. Candidates often answer Ballotpedia's interviews, and if you're lucky, you'll also get all the dirt on who's donating to their campaign.
Check endorsements. Usually candidates are very vocal about these on their websites. If local/state progressive leaders and a couple unions (not counting police unions lol) are endorsing a candidate, then that's not the end of my personal research process per se, but it usually speeds things up.
Check the back of the ballot. That's where non-partisan races usually bleed over to. This is the other reason why notes are helpful, because they can confirm you're not missing anything.
I've seen some misconceptions in the reblogs, so an addendum to my point about bringing notes on the candidates: I strongly suggest making those notes a physical list that you bring polling place with you. Many states do allow phones at the polling place, but several states explicitly don't — Nevada, Maryland, and Texas all ban phones, and that may not be an exhaustive list. There may also be states that allow individual city clerks to set policies.
You should also pause and think before you take a photo of your ballot, because even some states that don't ban phones still ban ballot photographs. But whether it's a photo, or just having your phone in general — in an environment as high-risk for voter suppression as the current one, you don't want even a little bit of ambiguity about your conduct. Physical notes are your friends.
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They turned Sebastian Debeste into Eustace...... honestly if fans make a fantranslation 10 years before you I think they've got dibs on localizations especially if their take is better. And you need to do less work! fucking Eustace
#like pretty sure most terms in type-moon terminology were localized by the fans and then adopted by official translations#the one time they changed them it got extremely confusing#and 'Mystic eyes of death perception' is such a good name
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Pretty sure the op of the Hamilton art is a terf and zionist
I looked at their blog and they definitely have some weird takes. I didn't scroll down super far but from what I could see, they're just very lukewarm about being pro-palestine. Which is super lame but not a crime.
As for the terf claim, I didn't really see anything abt that other than their bio. I know I "should" care, being trans and all but I tend not to vex myself over people whose opinions deny my personhood.
Idk what you expect me to do about it tho? Deleting my reblog doesn't help anyone, it's not like I'm giving them money, the post isn't about those things, etc. I hate both terfs and zionists to be sure but it's a lot more helpful to reblog Palestinian funds and such rather than try to maintain moral purity in regards to random reblogs of silly, non political art.
I'm not particularly concerned with making sure every single thing I reblog was originally posted by someone with all the "right" views on everything. It's a fruitless endeavor and it's completely useless to folks that need actual help :/
I understand if you're worried about whistleblowing but taking one look at my blog, it's fairly evident that I'm both pro-palestine and very transgender. So like. Breathe. If you're gonna give info but not your opinion on what I should do w the info, then like... What's the point?
While I disagree with their takes on the best way to protest and several other things, I'm certainly not one to throw the baby out w the bathwater and they do make a lovely point w this post... I feel it's applicable here.
#i find it interesting tho that this ask was sent anonymously#say it w ur chest if you care so much my beautiful knight in shining armor#sighhhhh#i dont want to be antagonistic but like... be so fr#miku binder Thomas Jefferson isnt saving Palestine or transfolk from the evil global powers that rule us#its a waste of time to care about it#go help a homeless person in your area my friend#and b4 anyone asks... yes ive gone to great lengths to help my community including but not limited to:#helping to raise ~4000 USD for the ali forney center in ny (a homeless shelter for queer youth)#talked to local representatives on the school board to help secure rights for queer youth in our school (name changes. gn bathrooms. etc)#provided food for local homeless ppl (we borrowed from grocey stores owned by amazon lol... for legal reasons this is a joke)#helped organize protests for gun violence. blm. pride.....#idk man don't talk to me abt shut like this unless you are willing st stand your ground publicly#asks#im being mean but idc tbh#this shit is so fucking asinine#sorry if you genuinely had good intentions ig?
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I don’t need brand name food so I’ll just get the cheapest one vs. all the cheap brands are probably sourced with like the most unsustainable and exploitative practices. FIGHT
#I know loads of name brands are also exploitative and unsustainable#but like the foods that are branded as sustainable are so expensive#and i don’t even know if they’re actually sustainable#and i don’t have the ability to buy local food all the time (no car)#and then It’s like woah is there actually any good choice or is it worthless because we need system wide change#and then It’s like what the fuck Can i do for system wide change#and like yeah i could look this up#and IVE tried#but that would be like a whole search for every single product I buy#and there’s not like an easy database for ‘is this food evil or not’ at least not as far as I can tell#Bc there’s so many different opinions on what’s the best thing for sustainable agriculture#and i want to take a class on this next year#but#it’s from 5-730 Pm#Ugh
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It doesn't take long to settle into the rhythm of your new summer job. Or: the babysitter x single dad au
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It’s not unusual for someone to mistake you for the baby’s mama.
How could someone not, at least for a moment? When you take the baby to the grocery store, older people gush over him babbling in his stroller, eager to shower him with compliments in baby-talk or tell you how much you resemble the little tyke. After hearing the same comment for the umpteenth time, you tire of correcting people by saying you’re the babysitter only to watch their face fall, somewhat mortified and feeling as though their comment should’ve been directed to the baby’s actual mother. Which isn’t you.
It’s less typical for someone to mistake you for John’s wife, though that does happen from time to time.
You’ve become a fixture around the neighbourhood since John hired you at the beginning of the summer, and over the weeks, the other nannies and the stay-at-home moms have started to gradually warm up to you. Before long, you’re being invited on coffee runs and playdates with some of the other women, always careful to ask for John’s permission before bringing his baby into a stranger’s house.
“Just text me the address and their names,” he requests while you stand awkwardly in front of him, John sitting on the bed to finish buttoning up his shirt and fixing his watch around his wrist. You would’ve been fine standing on the other side of the door while he finished changing, but he insisted on inviting you in.
“I will,” you promise, nodding along with his words.
“And call me if you don’t feel comfortable. I’ll come get the two of you right away if you need me.”
You swallow. Nod again.
The first time you take the baby for a playdate with a couple of the moms from the park, one catches you in the act of texting John the address of the house as he requested. “Hubby wants to know where you are, huh?”
“Oh,” you choke out, face heating up. “He’s not—”
“Not a control freak, I know. They’re all like that.” Her smile is ebullient, rolling her eyes like you’re in on a joke together when you most assuredly are not. “Why don’t you share your location with him? Mine’s the same way. Here—I’ll show you how.”
She takes your phone and tap-taps something and suddenly you see it in the notifications of your conversation with John. If you bite your lip instead of correcting her assumption about the nature of your and John’s relationship, that’s for you and you alone to know. Your rationale is that any explanation will just make things tense; it’s not like you haven’t seen it happen before.
It’s far more concerning when John doesn’t correct those assumptions. Particularly when you’re standing right next to him.
Like at the local water park on a particularly hot weekend, wading in the kiddy pool with the baby nestled tight against your chest in his little swim trunks and floppy hat only for an employee to ask John if his wife would like something to drink.
“Iced coffee, love?” John asks, taking your stupefied silence as a yes. “Nothing for me, mate. Cheers.”
Your head spins like a top on that thought until a good while later. The server hands you a glass of iced coffee with condensation already dripping down the sides and John thanks him for you, taking the baby from you and pulling you to his side. You drink your coffee quietly with your thigh flush with his under the water, gripping the glass harder when his free hand squeezes around your waist, laughing at something another parent said to him.
It’s so over for you. There’s no coming back from this.
The sight of someone of John’s size, a bulky, military man with arms of pure steel dusted with dark hairs, cradling a tiny, chubby baby with a thatch of similar dark hair on his head and big cheeks and roly poly arms unlocks something primal in you. An old, buried need.
In the family changing room, you stand under an ice cold shower until it breaks the fever slowly consuming you. All you can do is hope it takes.
In the evening, you sit out on the porch with John at the back of the house until the crickets swell with song, the moon a half-crescent in the sky. A cool breeze makes your shoulders lift a little, huddling into your body to keep warm.
It’s hard to keep your eyes on the view in front of you and off the man sitting beside you when they want so badly to be running over him. He’s changed out of his work clothes into a soft pair of sweatpants and an old threadbare shirt, the sage green fabric faded after years of being run through the washing machine. It clings to his biceps and the soft pudge of his stomach, a layer of fat over the hard muscle beneath.
A cigarette dangles from his fingers, thick wrist perched on the arm of the adirondack chair. Every so often he lifts it to his lips for a puff, always breathing out in the opposite direction from you. Considerate of your health, at least, if not his own.
“Cold, sweetheart?” he asks before ashing his cigarette, and your bottom lip purses when you turn your head to look at him because you thought you were doing a good job suppressing your shivers.
You stare at him, confused. He cocks an eyebrow at your questioning stare and deliberately glances down, waiting until you notice the way your nipples are protruding through your white tank top. You forgot that you’d taken your bra off earlier for a bit of relief and hadn’t yet had a chance to put it back on.
“Oh my god,” you squeak, crossing your arms to hide as much as possible, humiliation flooding through you. “I’m so sorry—that’s so—I-I’m so sorry.”
John makes a rough sound when he rises to his feet, knees cracking as he does. “S’alright, hun. Lemme get you something to put on.”
The screen door creaks when he goes back inside briefly to fetch something only to come back a few seconds later with a big, cotton sweater that reeks of him. It looks well loved, some remnant of his younger years, and even from a distance, you can smell the distinct smoky aroma clinging to the fabric.
When he kneels in front of you, you nearly go cross-eyed at the realisation that even on his knees, he’s as tall as you. The bulk of his waist forces your legs to spread around him.
“C’mon, arms up,” John commands, barely waiting until you’ve raised your arms above your head before helping guide your head and arms into the right holes.
Dragging the sweater down the way he does forces it to rub over your nipples, sending a shock through you. If you had any less self-control, your teeth might actually chatter together.
“There we go,” he says, fluffing out the sweater around your waist before resting his hands on the tops of your thighs, the gesture coming so naturally to him that you doubt he’s even noticed the placement of his hands. “Much better. That’ll warm you up.”
He isn't wrong. You’ve already worked up a sweat.
Late night rain.
It comes down in buckets, a dark slate rapping hard against the window pane. A bolt of lightning flickers across the horizon off in the distance. White striations across an otherwise dark sky. About thirty seconds later, thunder rumbles.
You peek from between the blinds, chewing your lip nervously. You’ve never driven in rain this bad, but with supper done and the dishes washed, there’s no excuse for you to stay any longer. Still, the rain comes down so heavily that despite your timidity, you briefly contemplate asking John if you can stay a little longer. At least until it lets up a bit; until your headlights won’t blind you reflecting off the puddles on the drive home.
Someone else pulls the blinds further apart.
“There’s no way in hell you’re going out in that,” John says from behind you, practically growling his words. Daring you to contradict him.
You glance over your shoulder to find him right there at your back, staring out the window. He’s so close that you can smell the red sauce on his flannel from dinner and make out the flecks of grey in his beard that are almost masked by the darker hairs.
“It’s not…that bad…”
“Sweetheart, don’t piss me off,” he warns.
The blinds shuttle back together with a clatter when you finally let go of them.
“I could—I could take the couch,” you offer.
“Sweetheart,” John sighs, looking down at you meaningfully.
“What?” you ask, confused.
“I’m not gonna take the big, comfy bed and leave you with the couch.” When you open your mouth to protest, he cuts you off. “And don’t even try arguing. I won’t hear it.”
There’s not much you can say to dissuade him after that. The furrow of his brow lets you know he’s made up his mind; no ifs, ands, or buts. Besides, there’s a not-so-secret part of you that’s relieved that you don’t have to drive home in this weather. You’re an average driver on a good day. You don’t need your last moments before shuffling off this mortal coil to involve hydroplaning on the highway before ramming into the guardrail.
John gives you a shirt of his to change into for after your shower, which you spend far too long in, scrubbing your body with his shower gel and quivering under the warm water. When you pull it on, you bring the collar up to your nose to smell. The same patent smoky scent, musky like ambergris and leather. Intoxicating. It makes the blood rush through your ear like a conch shell, the ocean swirling behind your eardrum.
You hadn’t asked for underwear, content at first to keep on the same pair, but after your shower, you cringe at the thought of putting your day-old panties back on. Besides, his shirt is long enough to cover anything indecent.
He sits on the edge of the bed when you come out, the concern on his brow melting away at the sight of you.
“Practically a dress on you, isn’t it?” John says, voice a little wondrous. His eyes drag over you, tip to toe.
You fiddle with the ends of it. “…Are you sure you want me to take the bed?”
“Wouldn’t be fair. It’s yours for the night.” His lips quirk up at the corners when you frown. “Don’t worry about me—I’ve slept in worse places before.”
“Like where?” you ask dubiously.
“Tents. Abandoned buildings. Shacks. In the back of a moving van a few times. You wouldn’t believe half the places we used to make camp. Definitely no place for pretty girls like you.”
His condescending tone vaguely annoys you, but it’s hard to dig into your irritation when he thumbs the edge of the shirt you’re wearing and you realise that he’s just a few raised inches away from noticing that you don’t have any panties on. You should’ve just put your old ones back on, but it’s far too late now.
You clear your throat instead. “We could…um…we could share.”
You don’t know what possesses you to offer to share the bed, but the words are already gone, out of your mouth and in the air. John cocks an eyebrow.
“Unless you don’t want to,” you amend.
“Don’t know about that, sweetheart,” he rasps. “…I snore like a bear.”
“That’s okay. I’m a pretty deep sleeper.”
John scrutinises you a bit longer, looking for any sign of hesitancy. You know he’d squash your offer in a second if he found any wariness in your gaze.
“Alright,” he finally concedes, letting go of your shirt and slapping his thighs. “But don’t say I didn’t warn you when you wake up and can’t fall back asleep because of my snoring.”
After his shower, during which you lie on your side facing away from the bathroom door, stomach fraught with nerves as you consider the fact that he’s naked in the ensuite, you hear him come out and rummage around in the dresser for a change of clothes. You lie beside him with your stomach twisted in knots, your hands shoved under the pillow and staring resolutely at the wall.
The appropriateness of sleeping in the same bed beside your boss isn't lost on you, but you're too far into this now.
The bed dips when he settles onto the other side, and the sudden absence of light when he switches the bedside lamp off nearly makes you cheep.
He breathes heavily, you notice, particularly when he finally falls asleep. It’s a deep, rumbling sound—not entirely unlike a bear, though you can’t really confirm that for certain seeing as how you’ve never slept beside a bear before.
Those are the thoughts that would signal the approach of sleep if you weren’t soon to be engulfed by it.
Sometime in the middle of the night, you wake up to a rough hand stroking your back leisurely. There’s a hard chest under you, your cheek propped up on a pillowy pec that rises and falls with his breaths. Sleep bobs around in you like a toulouse decanter. You struggle to keep an eye open, certain that there’s something you need to tend to, but then his hand slides down your back again to curve over your rump and sleep drags you back down.
You wake up again to your breath wafting back into your mouth, your face shoved into the crook of a man’s neck. Humid, hot. You’re lipping at the skin of his neck, little tongue darting out to lap up a bead of sweat, salty on your tongue.
Your cunt pulses against his leg, toes curling when John drags his hand up your thigh and hitches it higher up around his waist.
“Baby?” he groans, his voice still rusty from sleep. The sound is a rough burr up your spine.
“Sorry,” you whisper. “Couldn’ get comfy.”
“You hot?” he asks.
The denial on the tip of your tongue slips back down your throat when he plants his foot on the bed and draws his leg up, pressing the meat of his thigh into your throbbing sex.
“Here, lemme help you—” he groans, reaching down to ruck up your shirt, dragging it up over your breasts and helping manoeuvre your arms out of the holes. It gets tossed off the bed onto the floor.
Now your breasts are flat on his chest, smushed against his ribcage. It registers somewhere in the back of your head as inappropriate, but sleep pushes that thought away, focusing instead on the discomfort of moving around when you just want to settle back down and go back to bed.
It must be the heat making you act this way.
“Shit—sorry, sweetheart,” he apologizes, shifting under you. “M’hot too.”
He plants a hand on your ass and heaves you up his chest, giving him enough room to wiggle out of his boxers. It pushes your breasts right into his face, your nipples mere inches from his mouth. When his tongue pokes out to wet his upper lip, it nicks your pebbled nipple.
A hard length presses against your butt when you’re slid back down, the tip wet when it catches against your skin.
“Jus’ ignore it, sweetie,” John mumbles, petting a hand down your back.
You lie like that for a while, splayed over his body. Want simmering just under your skin. Flustered and exhausted all at once, sleep-drained; not a drop of strength in your muscles.
The heat is just—
Scorching. Dizzying. You feel featherbrained, slipping in and out of sleep, biting off the whimpers that threaten to crawl up your throat when John tucks his hands into the crevice of your thighs to wrench them apart, spreading them around his hips again.
Distantly, you remember that the man under you is at least twenty years your senior. Your employer at that. A man now palming your butt, sinking his fingers into the flesh and rumbling low in his throat.
It’s wrong—flagrantly wrong. You know that you should say something, that you should get up and tell him that you’re going to sleep on the couch instead. But your tongue is too thick for your mouth. And your thoughts are a sticky paste. The pulse between your thighs empties out all the common sense from your head.
His palms are slick on your skin.
Your breathing grows shallow when a hard length suddenly pushes between your thighs as well.
When the mushroomed head nudges at your opening, you flinch, heart thumping ferociously against your chest.
“John—John—” you breathe, panicked. As if to warn him. As if he weren’t planting both feet on the bed and lifting his hips.
As if it wasn’t his hands, warm on your waist, dragging you down onto the shaft spearing into you.
Your blood is molten hot in your veins. Sticky hands and sticky fingers curl into his chest hair. Your head thumps against his pecs, too weak to hold it up, lipping at the damp skin of his chest.
“It hurts—” you bleat, tears pricking at the backs of your eyes.
“I know, baby, I know,” John pants. He draws his hips back just to press forward again, deeper this time. Filling you up more than before. “I’m sorry, baby—I can’t, it’s just…too good. Shit.”
Resolve in tatters. Shattered like his willpower, like his determination not to fuck the girl twenty years his junior sleeping beside him in his bed.
His hips pump up into yours, bouncing you in his lap. Each thrust plunging his cock deeper into your pussy. It’d be painful if you weren’t so wet, but you’re dripping, arousal making you leak around his shaft and slickening his way.
Sleep still rattles around in your brain, but not even the fog of sleep can shake the ever intensifying realisation that you’re fucking your boss. No two ways around it—breasts naked against his hirsute chest; pussy wet and stuffed to the hilt with a big dick. Knocked senseless by it.
The veins of his cock drag over the viscid walls of your cunt with every thrust. He must like the involuntary noises you make because he loses his rhythm when you cry out, growling out a string of unintelligible curses. His body feels bigger like this somehow, biceps and forearms bulging where they’re wrapped around your waist, hips forcing your legs to spread wide around him, the ache sinking deep into your muscle, into your bones.
When you look up at him, his eyes are more hooded than usual, the blue of his irises so dark that they’re almost black.
“Such a good girl,” he grunts, big arms like steel bands around your waist, holding you tight to his chest so you have nowhere to run. “Jus’ let…jus’ let daddy come and—oh Christ, fuck, fuck…—jus’ lemme come and we’ll go back to bed, okay, sweetie?”
“I’m gonna…” you pant, trailing off when he gets a little rough, pumping harder up into you. The sound of your pussy squelching around his length makes your eyes roll back, mouth hanging open.
“Yeah, yeah, you—you come too, baby. Jus’ need to take the edge off, both of us.”
You squeal when he reaches a hand down to dig his fingers into your butt cheek and it makes you tense up, walls tightening around his dick. One well-placed swat hard enough to make the flesh of your ass jiggle and you come, clenching up so tight that his next few thrusts are slowed by your spasming walls, forcing him to really cram his cock into your hole.
“Christ, that’s cute,” John growls, his pupils blown out.
It hurts to come that hard; makes your belly cramp up and everything. Whatever gibberish spills from your mouth gets lost in the aftermath.
That’s when the temperature goes from hot to blistering. The muscles of his thighs tense, straining with his impending release. Even his grip around your waist gets tighter, his self-control steamrolled under his approaching climax, oblivious to the way you squeal and squirm when it threads the delicate needle of being too much.
“Sorry, baby,” he apologises, voice treading gravel. “M’gonna mess your pussy up a bit—”
“Wait—wait—” you gasp, trying fruitlessly to lift yourself up, his arms keeping you pinned tight to his chest. “You’re gonna—John, you’re gonna come inside me—”
His hips thrust up hard at your words, one last rough pump that has him digging his heels into the mattress and clenching his jaw, the veins in his neck protruding. You feel it flood inside you, hot spurts of cum right up against your womb. He curses when he comes, eyelids sliding shut, lost in the sensation of emptying himself into you.
A few last, punishing thrusts that make your teeth clack together. More heat spurting into you. A murmured oh fuck before his legs slide back down the bed, spreading out over the mattress.
The blanket is somewhere at the foot of the bed, all scrunched up and nearly dangling off the edge. You only start to shiver when the sweat on your back finally begins to cool.
When he pulls you off his cock, you whimper, a hot flash snaking through you. Oh Christ did he plug you up good. Stringy, viscous cum leaks from your hole, leaving a little puddle on his thigh when you slide off his chest and to the side a bit.
“Oh baby,” he tuts softly, reaching between your legs to feel where you’re wet and a little swollen. “Sorry, sweetheart…wanna get cleaned up?”
“No…” you rasp, so dazed that you can’t even lift your cheek off his chest.
Exhaustion has never ridden you this hard before, but considering the circumstances…—perhaps you’re lucky to be conscious at all, is all you mean. There’s not a chance of you having enough energy to do anything as rigorous as showering though.
“Okay, baby. Little kiss?” John asks in a murmur, lifting your head up by your chin and swooping down for a kiss. Not even giving you enough time to process his words before his mouth is on yours.
His lips glide slick against yours, tongue slipping into your mouth like he needs a good, deep kiss to ground him. A wet twisting of tongues; a thick finger stroking up your neck. He can’t stop touching you. Running a hand up your spine and curving it back down over your ass. Featherlight touches meant to calm you down. His kisses grow sticky, lingering; each one almost the last until he pulls you in for another.
“Go back to sleep, okay?” John says, still speaking low enough to push you back under. He smooths his hand down your back again.
You fall back asleep with a load in your belly and your head in a tizzy. The you of tomorrow is going to have a lot to contend with from the you of tonight.
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